Minions card

Happy New Year! So I'm going to try to keep a resolution about blogging...  but I don't want to make too big of a deal about it because yeah, I'm pretty sure I'd still rather create things than write about them! But I am going to try.

Here's a project that has absolutely nothing to do with New Years, a card that I made for a friend of my daughter who  turned six last week. She insisted that he likes Minions so that's what he got, a Minion board game and a Minion card. I found a super cute cut file to download (that I modified slightly) and I cut it with my Silhouette. See, I told you I've been trying to use it more!

This was the first item that I've made with so many layers. I actually cut all of the pieces at once by trimming scraps to correct size and putting them on the cutting mat in the corresponding places. So much easier than I thought it would be! I didn't have a slightly darker blue for the pocket so I used the same blue as the overalls but colored it with a VersaMark marker.

Then I pulled out this patterned paper that's been in my scrap stash probably since I started scrapbooking in 1996. Remember Paper Pizzazz and how patterned paper wasn't usually sold in individual sheets back then but in booklets? I think this was one of theirs. It has never worked for anything in the past 20 years but somehow I liked it for this card.

4th birthday boy card

Yes, I have been crafting. Here and there. No I have not been blogging. Anywhere.

Here's a quick card that I made for a four-year-old whose birthday party my daughter went to over the weekend. I got to make it in the time that my daughter made her own card. Hers mostly involved scribbles, so I had to pull this together pretty quickly.

Ran some scrap navy cardstock through my Texture Boutique (really almost typed Bowtique there -- entirely too much Mickey Mouse Clubhouse has been playing at our house) for the background. Cut some scraps into banners using the quick square punch technique. (Just slide the end of the strip into a large square punch at a 45 degree angle, squeeze and you've got a banner.) Stamped the birthday boy's name letter by letter onto white cardstock, cut out freehand and edged with blue ink. Stole a foam number four from my daughter's craft stash, tied around a piece of bakers twine and the card was done. With 20 minutes to spare before we had to leave for the party. Whew!

Funny, I looked back at cards I've made for the same kid the past two years, and apparently I think banners and bunting when I think of him.

Last year's card:

The year before:

I'm definitely going to have to come up with something new next year!